ECE 261 James Morizio 1 ECE 261: Full Custom VLSI Design Prof. James Morizio Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering Hudson Hall Ph: 201-7759 E-mail: [email protected]URL: http://www.ee.duke.edu/~jmorizio Course URL: http://www.ee.duke.edu/~jmorizio/ece261/261.html
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ECE 261 James Morizio 1
ECE 261: Full Custom VLSI DesignProf. James Morizio
Dept. Electrical and Computer EngineeringHudson HallPh: 201-7759
• Signal Processing (DSP chips, data acquisition systems)• Transaction processing (bank ATMs)• PCs, workstations• Medical electronics (artificial eye, implants)• Multimedia
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Design Complexity• Transistor counts and IC densities continue to
grow!– Moore’s Law-The number of transistors on an IC doubles every
1.5 years– Intel x486: 1 million transistors (1989), PowerPC: 2-3 million
transistors (1994), Pentium: 3.1 million transistors (1994), DECAlpha: 10 million transistors (1995)-9 million in SRAM, Pentium IV (2001): 42 million transistors
• Memory (DRAM) is the “technology driver”– 256 Mbits DRAM now commercially available
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A Brief History• 1958: First integrated circuit
– Flip-flop using two transistors– Built by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments
• 2003– Intel Pentium 4 µprocessor (55 million transistors)– 512 Mbit DRAM (> 0.5 billion transistors)
• 53% compound annual growth rate over 45 years– No other technology has grown so fast so long
• Driven by miniaturization of transistors– Smaller is cheaper, faster, lower in power!– Revolutionary effects on society
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Annual Sales
• 1018 transistors manufactured in 2003– 100 million for every human on the planet